Archive for: January, 2010

EMAIL FORENSICS At The Center of Bennett Trial

A High Court judge in Harare will next week rule on whether
emails at the center of treason charges against opposition MDC Treasurer and minister designate, Roy Bennett, are admissible during the high profile trial. The Emails will serve as a test case on the use of intercepted communications under Zimbabwean law.

STAB PROOF VESTS: Fearmongering or realism?

The controversial stab proof vests designed for tourists and going to South Africa for World Cup 2010, scheduled for June, have hit the market with one vest selling for $69,000.

GENERAL AFFAIR: A Glimpse At Military Spending

Zimbabwe is not known for spending its meagre resources in the right places, at least not until the formation of the unity government. The military is replete with hardware and supplies, while other sectors of government go by on a pittance. The health sector is heavily underfunded, and civil servants poorly paid, while warehouses suffocate with teargas and polished military hardware. IA

Future of investigative journalism at stake

Nonprofit groups that specialize in investigative reporting have had some big scoops, cracking the front page of such newspapers as The Washington Post and forcing officials out of their jobs. Now the question is whether these organizations can stay afloat on donations.

FUTILITY OF TORTURE: Court dismisses confession in arms trial

The High Court in Harare has dismissed confessions obtained under duress by state security agents from arms dealer Michael Peter Hitschmann, paving way for his impeachment as key witness in the high profile trial of the Deputy Agriculture Minister-designate Roy Bennett.

SALUTE: Tsvangirai settles in

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai lays a wreath on the grave of Sunny Takawira, a fighter for Zimbabwe’s independence and widow of the late veteran nationalist Leopold Takawira.

Painted Dog Conservation

Three African Wild Dogs Killed in Namibian Park

Painted Dog Conservation

HOSTILE: Court rules witness unfit in arms trial

The MDC says the case against Bennett is politically motivated and aimed at keeping him out of the transitional government the party formed with ZANU PF party led by President Mugabe. Bennett is a Deputy Agriculture Minister appointee of Prime Minister Tsvangirai, but he is yet to be sworn-in by President Mugabe since February last year.

Its a mean, blogging, tweeting, tabloid world!

The celebrated deep throat is evolving, from that trustworthy, well placed official, to a bunch of seemingly credible, anonymous twitters or bloggers, some of whom are still well places officials. It seems the lines are blurring… after all. Its a mean, blogging, tweeting and re-tweeting, tabloid world!

DETAINED: Botswana scouts held in Zimbabwe

This is not the first time government employees from Botswana are arrested in Zimbabwe as in 2006, a former Botswana Television reporter and cameraman Koketso Seofela were fined arrested and Z$5 000 (about P128) for breaking Zimbabwean Immigration laws by crossing into that country without permission.

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